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(what may appear aftonilhing in one of this petulant genus,) has even been 

 celebrated for the decorum and modefty of its behaviour. Confidered with 

 refpeft to the reft of its tribe it ranks amongft the genuine Jpesy or Simi^ 

 ecniidatiC, and is one of thofe fpecies which alarm die pride of Mankind by 

 too near an approach to tlie real Primates of the creation. 



Linnasus, in his celebrated work the Syftema Naturae, has even placed the 

 animal called the Orang-Otang, or Simla Satyrus, as a fpecies of Homo, or 

 Man; but at that time he feems to have paid perhaps too much attention 

 to the exaggerated defcriptions of that animal as given by fome travellers, 

 who have rcprefented it as making a nearer approach to Man than is really 

 tlie cafe. Seduced by thefe authorities Linnasus gives as a fpecies of Man, 

 the Homo Troglodytes, which Is nothing more than the Simia Satyrus, and 

 which again occurs in its proper genus of Simia. Our prefent fpecies has 

 undergone a fimilar change in its genus, having been once defcribed by 

 Linnasus under the name of Homo Lar. 



It is figured in the natural hiftory of the Count de BufFon, Its moft ftriking 

 charader as a fpecies is the exceffive length of its arms, which, when the 

 creature ftands upright, are fo long as to touch the ground. It has no appear- 

 ance of a rail, and the nails on all the toes are lliaped nearly as the human 

 ones. This animal is a native of feveral parts of the Eaft Indies ; and 

 particularly of the interior parts of Bengal. It fometimes grows to the height 

 of a man, but there is aifo a fmaller variety, which perfedtly refembles the 

 large fort, except in not growing to above half its fize. In the figure of 

 this fpecies given by the Count de Buffon the face is brown, furrounded with 

 a fpreadino; white beard : the feet are alfo reprefented nearly white. After 

 all it is perhaps not impoffible that the animal here reprefented may be 

 really a diftinft fpecies from the black one, tho' fo very nearly allied to it. 



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